World's Best Goalkeepers by Year | 1987–2025

Top 10 Best Goalkeepers Every Year | 1987–2025 Who was the best goalkeeper in the world each year? Explore 39 years of football history in this animated bar chart race featuring the Top 10 Best Goalkeepers Every Year from 1987 to 2025. Watch how the world's greatest goalkeepers competed for the top positions, from legendary shot-stoppers such as Jean-Marie Pfaff, Rinat Dasayev, Walter Zenga, Peter Schmeichel and Oliver Kahn to modern football icons including Gianluigi Buffon, Iker Casillas, Petr Čech, Manuel Neuer, Thibaut Courtois, Alisson Becker, Emiliano Martínez and Gianluigi Donnarumma. Discover how goalkeeper rankings evolved across different generations as football legends rose to the top, defended their positions and made way for new stars. This visualization covers nearly four decades of international football, including the dominance of legendary European goalkeepers, the rise of South American stars and the emergence of modern goalkeeping talents. Who dominated the goalkeeper rankings in the 1990s? How did Buffon, Casillas and Neuer compare during their peak years? Which goalkeepers finished at the top in recent seasons? Watch the full ranking evolution from 1987 to 2025 and discover how the world's best goalkeepers changed over time. Data Note: The visualization is based primarily on historical annual goalkeeper rankings published by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). Each year is ranked independently, with positions converted into visualization scores from 10 points for first place to 1 point for tenth place. Scores are not cumulative and do not represent actual IFFHS voting totals. For years when fewer than 10 official ranking positions were available, additional goalkeepers were selected using historical context and editorial estimates. These estimated positions should not be interpreted as official IFFHS rankings. Sources: International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS): https://www.iffhs.com IFFHS – World's Best Goalkeeper Awards 1987: https://portal.iffhs.com/posts/279 RSSSF – IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper of the Year (Historical Rankings): https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/iffhs-gkoy.html IFFHS – World's Best Goalkeeper 2025: https://iffhs.com/index.php/posts/4810 Hashtags: #BestGoalkeepers #WorldsBestGoalkeeper #GoalkeeperRanking #Top10Goalkeepers #FootballHistory #FootballLegends #GianluigiBuffon #IkerCasillas #ManuelNeuer #ThibautCourtois #PeterSchmeichel #FootballStatistics #BarChartRace #DataVisualization #1987to2025